Postdramatic Theatre

Hans-Thies Lehmann, Karen Juers-Munby

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2006
• eBook ISBN: 9781134496822
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Drama

Newly adapted for the Anglophone reader, this is an excellent translation of Hans-Thies Lehmann's groundbreaking study of the new theatre forms that have developed since the late 1960s, which has become a key reference point in international discussions of contemporary theatre.

In looking at the developments since the late 1960s, Lehmann considers them in relation to dramatic theory and theatre history, as an inventive response to the emergence of new technologies, and as an historical shift from a text-based culture to a new media age of image and sound.

Engaging with theoreticians of 'drama' from Aristotle and Brecht, to Barthes and Schechner, the book analyzes the work of recent experimental theatre practitioners such as Robert Wilson, Tadeusz Kantor, Heiner Müller, the Wooster Group, Needcompany and Societas Raffaello Sanzio.

Illustrated by a wealth of practical examples, and with an introduction by Karen Jürs-Munby providing useful theoretical and artistic contexts for the book, Postdramatic Theatre is an historical survey expertly combined with a unique theoretical approach which guides the reader through this new theatre landscape.

Index

Abdoh, Reza 91, 166

Abramowicz, Marina 140

abstract theatre 98

academic methodology 20

Achternbusch, Herbert 129

Across the Villages (Handke) 34

action:

avant-garde 61;

movement through space 47;

as the ‘soul’ of drama 68–9;

see also plot

actors:

acting and non-acting 135, 166;

gestic sculptures 80–1;

Hegel on 44;

as mannequins 73–4;

monologue communication 127–9;

physical being of 95–7, 138;

self-transformation 137–9;

as shamen 139

Adamov, Arthur 53

Adorno, Theodor 21, 115, 143;

on ancient tragedy 158;

film and text 116;

mimesis 38

Aeschylus 60

aesthetics:

Brechtian 30;

of fright 142–3;

of the real 99–104;

traditional norms 27–8;

wider perspective 18–19

Aesthetics (Hegel) 4, 41–5

afformance 179–80

Agamben, Giorgio 164

age and performance 5

Ahamnos, Elise 4

Akko-Theatre 24

alienation 22;

human warmth/coldness 95;

see also defamiliarization

Aloise, Andrea 4

Althusser, Louis 18, 181

Andersen, Hans Christian 109

Anderson, Laurie 138, 139

Angelus Novus 122

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Table of contents

• Contents
• Preface to the English edition
• Introduction
• Prologue
• Drama
• Prehistories
• Panorama of postdramatic theatre
• Performance
• Aspects
• Epilogue
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index